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shown us, boston. that in the face of evil, americans will lift up what's good. in the face of cruelty, we will choose compassion. >> we have more on religious responses in boston. ♪ ♪ >> at thursday's interfaith service, local religious leaders prayed for the healing of their city in the wake of the attks. >> we must overcome the culture of death by promoting a culture of life. a profound respect for each and every human being made in the image and likeness of god. we must cultivate a desire to give our lives to the service of others. >> within moments of the bombing, clergy and faith-based groups mobilize to do what they could to help. as victims of the bombing were brought to tufts medical center, interfaith chaplain mary lou was on site to offer counseling and prayer. she said one injured woman expressed what many were feeling. >> she said the hardest thing about this is, that some human being can treat other human beings like this. i just don't understand it. >> indeed, after a tragedy like th
shown us, boston. that in the face of evil, americans will lift up what's good. in the face of cruelty, we will choose compassion. >> we have more on religious responses in boston. ♪ ♪ >> at thursday's interfaith service, local religious leaders prayed for the healing of their city in the wake of the attks. >> we must overcome the culture of death by promoting a culture of life. a profound respect for each and every human being made in the image and likeness of god. we...
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captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> ifill: the surviving suspect in the boston bombings was charged today with the use of a weapon of mass destruction. good evening, i'm gwen ifill. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight, we update the investigation, both in the u.s. and abroad, into the two brothers believed to be behind the blasts, as the youngest remains hospitalized in serious, but stable condition. >> ifill: and we explore the legal questions raised by trying dzhokhar tsarnaev in federal court. >> brown: then, ray suarez gets an update on guantanamo bay, where more than half the prisoners are now on a hunger strike, protesting their indefinite detentions. >> ifill: paul solman has the story of older workers starting new businesses late in life. >> if you're smart and you realize you're getting older, well then, get into a business where you leverage the younger people and eventually you become the great gray god. >> brown: and judy woodruff looks into the trial of kermit gosnell-- the philadelphia abortion doctor accused of eight counts of murder
captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> ifill: the surviving suspect in the boston bombings was charged today with the use of a weapon of mass destruction. good evening, i'm gwen ifill. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight, we update the investigation, both in the u.s. and abroad, into the two brothers believed to be behind the blasts, as the youngest remains hospitalized in serious, but stable condition. >> ifill: and we explore...
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. >> i know you have you been at a conference that is ongoing now in boston about lyme disease. is there -- how much is there a debate within the research establishment about the treatment? >> that's a really good question. there does not seem to be a great deal of debate in the medical establishment that patients with lyme who haveling ring systems should use long-term antibiotics. but what is interesting is that, because people debris that some people remain sick, there's good research going into why. there'swork at yale and a maybe the bacteria leaves bits of protein behind. there's had a study at tufts that says, maybe in animal studies the bacteria does survive, it seems weakened in a way and doesn't make people sick but they're trying to find out if that is flew humans. as you said, the new numbers, you expect it will push the debate forward even politically? >> i think so. if you just consider massachusetts, which is "the boston globe" is, wee spend $10 million a year and more on mosquito control. we spend $60,000 on tick borne diseases. the disparity is great and as lyme
. >> i know you have you been at a conference that is ongoing now in boston about lyme disease. is there -- how much is there a debate within the research establishment about the treatment? >> that's a really good question. there does not seem to be a great deal of debate in the medical establishment that patients with lyme who haveling ring systems should use long-term antibiotics. but what is interesting is that, because people debris that some people remain sick, there's good...
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and then finally you have to top it off with the cold one there from boston beer company, sams, sam adams. this stock $104. it has been range bound going back to last fall. what could be a catalyst. >> it certainly has, and here is the thing. beer sales have been down, and i think what a lot of people do is they think of sands and think beer sales down, i don't know if i want to do that but craft beer sales have been up. and what's interesting about sam's is they have a new part of the company called alchemy and sciences this is their incubator for craft beers. they've already kind of brought in their expenses on the balance sheet but they haven't accounted for any profits. so there is a lot of upside potential here for profits on this side of the company. and i think that if you really get in here now, you know, maybe even let it pull back even a couple of dollars more, i think you're going to get it at a good price. >> tom: have some patience there when it comes to your habit with sam's, do you own any of these shares. >> i don't own any of them. >> narrator: you can-- . >> tom: you can
and then finally you have to top it off with the cold one there from boston beer company, sams, sam adams. this stock $104. it has been range bound going back to last fall. what could be a catalyst. >> it certainly has, and here is the thing. beer sales have been down, and i think what a lot of people do is they think of sands and think beer sales down, i don't know if i want to do that but craft beer sales have been up. and what's interesting about sam's is they have a new part of the...
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. >> woodruff: mitt romney was doing his debate homework in boston but advisorold cnn on nday that he expects a different president obama on tuesday up to a point >> well, the president can change his style. he can change his tactics. he can't change his record and he can't change his policies. that's what this election is about >> woodruff: the candidates face off tomorrow night at hofstra university in hempstead, new york. >> suarez: late today, mitt romney announced he raised more than $170 million in september, and said that his campaign and republican national committee had $191 million in the bank at the end of the month. those efforts are boosted by spending from outside groups. according to newshour partner kantar media/cmag, groups opposing the president and supporting romney in the general election alone have run record numbers of television commercials. that's more than 41,000 spots from american crossroads; more than 43,000 spots from americans for prosperity; and 45,000 spots from the restore our future super pac. backing president obama, the super pac priorities usa acti
. >> woodruff: mitt romney was doing his debate homework in boston but advisorold cnn on nday that he expects a different president obama on tuesday up to a point >> well, the president can change his style. he can change his tactics. he can't change his record and he can't change his policies. that's what this election is about >> woodruff: the candidates face off tomorrow night at hofstra university in hempstead, new york. >> suarez: late today, mitt romney announced...
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parts of boston are very, very liberal. it is a change in the northeast, and i thin -- the one place that democrats may still hang on is the west. that is why they may be making the fire wall up there. >> well, we concentrate right now -- just imagine if on november 2 the house does the republican -- does go republican and the gavel changes from the democratic chairman to the republican chairman. barack obama is in for a aery tough two years. >> i cannot wait. >> that explains why the president, even though he cannot go everywhere, it is going everywhere he can in these last two weeks. his travel schedule is packed. granted, some of them are deep blue, but he can make a difference, because he still does get a bigger crowd out there, and part of the democrats' problem is getting the apathetic progress of the voters out, because those people were frurateby the things that obama was not able to accomplish. >> two things are going on here. what is traditional, one is not. -- one is traditional, one is not. it is a referendum on
parts of boston are very, very liberal. it is a change in the northeast, and i thin -- the one place that democrats may still hang on is the west. that is why they may be making the fire wall up there. >> well, we concentrate right now -- just imagine if on november 2 the house does the republican -- does go republican and the gavel changes from the democratic chairman to the republican chairman. barack obama is in for a aery tough two years. >> i cannot wait. >> that explains...
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and charles sennott joins us now from boston. charles, how does what we saw over the weekend and continues through today resemble and how is it different from the mounting revolution that toppled hosni mubarak? >> well, i think what happened in january and february was such an extraordinary moment in egypt's history, so full of hope. there really was a sense of a nonviolent movement, largely nonviolent movement that took to the streets, toppled a 0-year dictator and wanted to push forward. i think what we're seeing on the streets today is the frustration that hasust erupted around, as you pointed out, the slow pace of change, the way in which the elections appear to be being thwarted by the military, the movement toward drafting a constitution is also many political factions feel is being thwarted by the military. the military which was really seen as heroic during the first days of those demonstrations that toppled mubarak is now being questioned. the fear i think that you sense in egypt is many people are wondering if this real
and charles sennott joins us now from boston. charles, how does what we saw over the weekend and continues through today resemble and how is it different from the mounting revolution that toppled hosni mubarak? >> well, i think what happened in january and february was such an extraordinary moment in egypt's history, so full of hope. there really was a sense of a nonviolent movement, largely nonviolent movement that took to the streets, toppled a 0-year dictator and wanted to push...
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now wre going to go to boston where margaret warner is outside romney headquarters in boston. margaret. >> warner: hi. it's cold here. >> ifill: it's cold here. so far, we've made several calls, all of them in state so far that were not the contested state. but is it boosting people at all? do they feel like this is going as well as they had hoped or are they a little bit nervous about what to expect later? >> warner: well, as i mentioned earlier gwen, they have been nervous all day, even though they-- by the end the day, they were thinking their own turnout was great. here's what i'm being told. as i mentioned earlier, they had hoped that virginia would be pretty clearly a romney win pretty early on. that-- it's not yet. that said, it's only one hour since the polls closed. and they know that the networks are being very careful, and the associated press, to call any state. so they're not yet disheartened by that. but this is a very big-- this hour now is very big to them. new hampshire was key. they had high hopes of getting those four electoral vote, that there had been a tr
now wre going to go to boston where margaret warner is outside romney headquarters in boston. margaret. >> warner: hi. it's cold here. >> ifill: it's cold here. so far, we've made several calls, all of them in state so far that were not the contested state. but is it boosting people at all? do they feel like this is going as well as they had hoped or are they a little bit nervous about what to expect later? >> warner: well, as i mentioned earlier gwen, they have been nervous...
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we hear from margaret warner with the romney campaign in boston and raw suarez at obama headquarters in chicago. >> it's the final frenetic day of the final campaign of his political career. the president ran from state to state starting in madson, wisconsin. the star power was kicked up a notch with an introduction from rock legend bruce springsteen. >> i get to fly around with him on the last day that i will ever campaign. that's not a bad way to end things. >> suarez: mr. obama lled on his supporters not to be frustrated by the pace of change. instead, he encouraged them to send a message to those who blockedded his policies every step of the way. >> what they're counting on now is that you're going to be so worn down, so fed up, so tired of all the squabbling, so tired of all the dysfunction that you're just going to give up and walk away and leave them... leave them right where they are. pulling the strings, pulling the levers. and you locked out of the decisions that impact your lives. in other words, their bet is on cynicism. wisconsin, my bet is on you. >> suarez: the preside
we hear from margaret warner with the romney campaign in boston and raw suarez at obama headquarters in chicago. >> it's the final frenetic day of the final campaign of his political career. the president ran from state to state starting in madson, wisconsin. the star power was kicked up a notch with an introduction from rock legend bruce springsteen. >> i get to fly around with him on the last day that i will ever campaign. that's not a bad way to end things. >> suarez: mr....
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boston already picked up 6-8 inches from the first one. you can see the other one exploding quickly northeast ward. so the two of them together coming within a 24-hour period are being blended together and called one storm but really it's two separate systems. in the end it doesn't make a difference because of the fact that you're going to get a lot of snow with the second one and a lot of ice with the second one. what is a blessing though is that we did have the break here to try to clean some things up before the second shot came in. >> suarez: what's going on in the upper atmosphere to create a weather event that before it ends may stretch 2,000 miles? >> well, we've seen storms that are bigger than this. let's remember the 1993 super storm dumped 20 inches of snow from alabama into an expanding arc all over the eastern part of the united states. we certainly have had some big storms this year in the northeast, specifically from philadelphia northeast-ward. last year was almost dallas to d.c. that got the worst of that particular winted
boston already picked up 6-8 inches from the first one. you can see the other one exploding quickly northeast ward. so the two of them together coming within a 24-hour period are being blended together and called one storm but really it's two separate systems. in the end it doesn't make a difference because of the fact that you're going to get a lot of snow with the second one and a lot of ice with the second one. what is a blessing though is that we did have the break here to try to clean some...
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former chief economist for the labor department and was also a director for the federal reserve bank 6 boston. and david leonhardt-- leonhardt is an economics writer and economist for "the new york times". lisa lynch what do these latest numbers tell you about the health of the overall economy? >> well, ray, it was obviously a disappointing report that we had today. we were all expecting a negative employment number given that the census bureau is laying off the temporary workers it hired for the census. but the fact that the private sector only added 71,000 jobs and we saw a very large downward revision in last month's employment number of over 100,000 jobs, really shows how anemic the recovery has been in the labor market. the private sector over the last three months has averaged only 51,000 net new jobs added to the economy. and what we really need to see out of the private sector is month after month of 200,000 or more jobs added to the economy. on top of that, we saw 48,000 jobs lost in state and local government workers. and there we're seeing the consequences of states and local gover
former chief economist for the labor department and was also a director for the federal reserve bank 6 boston. and david leonhardt-- leonhardt is an economics writer and economist for "the new york times". lisa lynch what do these latest numbers tell you about the health of the overall economy? >> well, ray, it was obviously a disappointing report that we had today. we were all expecting a negative employment number given that the census bureau is laying off the temporary...
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if i were sitting in boston in the romney campaign yesterday, it would have been reaching for the vodka bottle when he started talking about the matter. >> he did say, rich, he was quoted, told the reporters, he said it is small minded to be interested in this. >> they are going to say, and they said this on a whole host of things, we want to talk about subsnce and about the future of the country. and i think paul ryan plays into that theme. if you want to talk about my tax, go ahead. and i just think in the scheme of things there's nothing in his tax returns that going to be disqualifying or tell us anything about the merits of his policies. one way or the other. so ultimately i think it's a bit of distraction. >> a lot of talk this week about the tone of the race, vice president biden's comment about chains, republicans jumped on that and said that was taking it to a new low. are we seeing a different tone in this race or is this just wha we've alwayeen before but maybe earlier? >> i think it's earlier and more intense. and it was a misstep and bad statement by joe biden who has been
if i were sitting in boston in the romney campaign yesterday, it would have been reaching for the vodka bottle when he started talking about the matter. >> he did say, rich, he was quoted, told the reporters, he said it is small minded to be interested in this. >> they are going to say, and they said this on a whole host of things, we want to talk about subsnce and about the future of the country. and i think paul ryan plays into that theme. if you want to talk about my tax, go...
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they have got a slogan and the boston campaign headquarter, you've got to be willing to lose in order to win. and that's absolutely true of politics. you have to believe in something deeper before people will trust you and that hasn't been man fesd. the thing to look ahead if you are looking ahead is the michigan primary in two weeks or so. because that is a state where he has nominal family root, obviously. and yet santorum is not so far behind. and i suspect that is where santorum is going to contest. and right now you still have to consider romney the front-runner, though it is true that is an torm-- santorum has won four primari and he has only won two. but if he doesn't win the michigan, then i think the party becomes really hysterical. >> what is your cents of the con teferb sieve voters in a meeting like this one, where very strong conservatives, listening for all three what are they look for, or waiting for. >> they are looking for conviction. the idea is you are going to go to washington, a place they distrust, there aring going to be all these forces against you telling you
they have got a slogan and the boston campaign headquarter, you've got to be willing to lose in order to win. and that's absolutely true of politics. you have to believe in something deeper before people will trust you and that hasn't been man fesd. the thing to look ahead if you are looking ahead is the michigan primary in two weeks or so. because that is a state where he has nominal family root, obviously. and yet santorum is not so far behind. and i suspect that is where santorum is going to...
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he's now a professor of journalism at boston university's college of communication. and a research fellow at the hoover institution. callie crossley, start with npr's position here. do they have a case to make in separating themselves from one of their own news analysts like this? how do you weigh it out? >> well, they do have a case to make but let's be clear. this latest incident was really not the reason for the firing. i mean i think they expressed it by saying there was a pattern. he had gotten in trouble about a year ago and there was a great public hue and cry then about language used and opinion expressed. and so i think this was just a last straw for npr. and this was their response. and of course they have the right to fire him for that they have a set of standards and rules. i have to say that, you know, he's been himself for quite some time so he has been pressing up against those rules and standards for some time as well. i think it just got to the point of being unbearable and particularly in a situation where we're talking about muslims. and this has b
he's now a professor of journalism at boston university's college of communication. and a research fellow at the hoover institution. callie crossley, start with npr's position here. do they have a case to make in separating themselves from one of their own news analysts like this? how do you weigh it out? >> well, they do have a case to make but let's be clear. this latest incident was really not the reason for the firing. i mean i think they expressed it by saying there was a pattern. he...
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. >> holman: in boston today, the governor of massachusetts tapped william "mo" cowan-- a former aide to the governor-- as interim senator. cowan will become the second black member of this senate. cowan said he has no plans to run in the june special election to fill the remaining 18 months of kerry's term. donor countries pledged more than $1.5 billion today, in humanitarian aid for syria. about a billion of the total will go to help neighboring countries who are hosting refugees. the rest will go to aid syrians displaced inside their country. at the conference in kuwait, u.n. secretary-general ban ki- moon appealed to all sides, especially syrian president bashar assad. >> more than 60,000 people have been killed during last 22 months. personally i am pained to think how many more people may have to be killed in the coming days and weeks and months if we do not bring this situation to an end, urgently. >> holman: it's estimated two million people inside syria need food, shelter and other aid this winter. more than 700,000 others have fled to neighboring countries. >> holman: the fe
. >> holman: in boston today, the governor of massachusetts tapped william "mo" cowan-- a former aide to the governor-- as interim senator. cowan will become the second black member of this senate. cowan said he has no plans to run in the june special election to fill the remaining 18 months of kerry's term. donor countries pledged more than $1.5 billion today, in humanitarian aid for syria. about a billion of the total will go to help neighboring countries who are hosting...
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to see how romney's fighting for ohio, i need to go 700 miles east to campaign headquarters in boston. zach move at is romney's digital director. >> essentially the obama has had that significant head start. how do you deal with that challenge? >> we don't judge ourselves based upon the obama campaign because if we did we would judge against a man who has run unopposed for the last year. if we only rely on the actual television we'll lose this election. >> sreenivasan: the survey found roughly third of the electorate is more difficult to reach by traditional campaign methods. theye the people wh spend more of their lives online. he calls these voters off the grid. >> this large off the grid population, who are they? >> we define them by the term of people who don't watch live television anymore. other than sports they choose to live their lives on demand. they primarily watch d.v.r., netflix, they're choosing when they consume their content. that's the big difference. it's an astronomical amount of people who do not see a tv spot. one in three voters. >> sreenivasan: that works out to
to see how romney's fighting for ohio, i need to go 700 miles east to campaign headquarters in boston. zach move at is romney's digital director. >> essentially the obama has had that significant head start. how do you deal with that challenge? >> we don't judge ourselves based upon the obama campaign because if we did we would judge against a man who has run unopposed for the last year. if we only rely on the actual television we'll lose this election. >> sreenivasan: the...
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stupid intellectuals in new york and boston decided that religious fundamentalism was dead because clarence darrow had humiliated williams jennings bryan on the stand. well, as we know now, it wasn't dead at all. it just retired a bit from politics and was biding its time. >> y calrobe ingsoll, "one of the most important champions of reason and secular government in american history." and he raised the issue of religion, as you say, the role of religion. that the role it ought to play in the public life of the nation for the first time since the founding generation that wrote the constitution. >> that's part of his importance, and he made a lot of people aware of something that had been forgotten, which were that ours was the first constitution in the world -- well, the first constitution, basically. mean, you can't allyall the magna carta anything like a constitution. it separated church and state. it didn't mention god. >> at a time when every government in europe was uniting church and state. >> the fact that the constitution didn't mention god still stands as -- religious fundamentalist
stupid intellectuals in new york and boston decided that religious fundamentalism was dead because clarence darrow had humiliated williams jennings bryan on the stand. well, as we know now, it wasn't dead at all. it just retired a bit from politics and was biding its time. >> y calrobe ingsoll, "one of the most important champions of reason and secular government in american history." and he raised the issue of religion, as you say, the role of religion. that the role it ought...
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one month later in november 1863, a host of tig any taries from boston, philadelphia, and washington including president lincoln himself journeyed to gettysburg to dedicate the new soldiers' national cemetery there. lincoln's brief but soaring remarks, like the new burial ground itself, with its rows of identical graves radiating symmetrically and democratically around the cemetery's central focus marked a seismic shift in governmental attitude and policy towards the dead. one that said that the dead were no longer simply the responsibility of their famili families, that they and their loss and their meaning belonged to the nation. >> the gettysburg address is a statement about finding the redemption in the dead. but we need to that in that cemetery that day, half those coffins weren't even buried yet. graves were still open. this was a place of death, mass death. where lincoln tried to craft this statement of so, what does it mean? it is a kind of statement that if this war has purpose, if all these dead have died for something meaningful, then it means we are going to redefine this
one month later in november 1863, a host of tig any taries from boston, philadelphia, and washington including president lincoln himself journeyed to gettysburg to dedicate the new soldiers' national cemetery there. lincoln's brief but soaring remarks, like the new burial ground itself, with its rows of identical graves radiating symmetrically and democratically around the cemetery's central focus marked a seismic shift in governmental attitude and policy towards the dead. one that said that...
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last winter, long before zuccotti park, denise barrant, a middle manager whose suburban boston is in foreclosure and has been out of work for more than two years, sounded the theme. >> the top 1% is living well, and they don't get it. they don't get what is happening to this country. and i feel like we're creating a third world country subculture within this country. >> reporter: not everyone agrees, of course. and admittedly we were, for the most part, chronicling the downside. but after 2010, in which more interviewees cried on camera than in my entire 34-year career in public television, frankly, 2011 didn't seem a whole lot better. >> suarez: joblessness and the loss of so much personal wealth is also leading to a higher poverty rate in america. 15% of all americans fell below the federal poverty line. just over $22,000 for a family of four, a little more than $11,000 for an individual. we take a closer look now at the impact of this slow recovery not just in 2011 and 2012, but beyond with don peck. he's been writing extensively about these issues for the atlantic. he's the autho
last winter, long before zuccotti park, denise barrant, a middle manager whose suburban boston is in foreclosure and has been out of work for more than two years, sounded the theme. >> the top 1% is living well, and they don't get it. they don't get what is happening to this country. and i feel like we're creating a third world country subculture within this country. >> reporter: not everyone agrees, of course. and admittedly we were, for the most part, chronicling the downside. but...
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we don't want chemical weapons to find their way out of syria to boston to say. we don't iran to develop nuclear weapons. we still want a powerful transatlantic partnership. and one of the things i applaud the obama administration for doing, believe it or not, is pursuing this idea of a transatlantic free-trade agreement. we should, by the way, be doing that across pacific as well. wherever we can show that there are gains for all sides in joining in the kind of free trading, prospering system, we will be putting threats like chinese nationalist and chinese militarism to rest. but if you are's going to say pivot to asia, then the most important thing you can do is demonstrate to beijing that their attempts to increase their influence militarily will be met with demonstrations of deterence and willnd close cohesion between our respective allies. tell them that they have two paths to go down, one is a nationalist mill tarristic path. the other is the deng ping path of growing economically and encourage them to go down that second path. >> one of the aferkts for doi
we don't want chemical weapons to find their way out of syria to boston to say. we don't iran to develop nuclear weapons. we still want a powerful transatlantic partnership. and one of the things i applaud the obama administration for doing, believe it or not, is pursuing this idea of a transatlantic free-trade agreement. we should, by the way, be doing that across pacific as well. wherever we can show that there are gains for all sides in joining in the kind of free trading, prospering system,...
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today, the hacking collective claimed responsibility for taking down the boston police department web site. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to judy. >> woodruff: and to the political campaign, where the attention has moved west to the state of nevada. mitt romney was aiming today to go two-for-two, adding a win tomorrow in the nevada caucuses to tuesday's victory in florida. and he tried to move on from the flap over this comment on wednesday. >> i'm not concerned about the very poor. we have a safety net there. if it needs repair, i'll fix it. >> woodruff: romney initially defended his statement, but late yesterday told nevada political reporter jon ralston that it was a poor choice of words. >> i misspoke. i've said something that is similar to that but quite acceptable for a long time. and you know, when you do i- don't-know-how-many thousands of interviews, now and then, you may get it wrong. and i misspoke. >> woodruff: at a las vegas rally today, romney rival newt gingrich said the explanation no longer mattered-- the damage was done. >> so governor romney,
today, the hacking collective claimed responsibility for taking down the boston police department web site. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to judy. >> woodruff: and to the political campaign, where the attention has moved west to the state of nevada. mitt romney was aiming today to go two-for-two, adding a win tomorrow in the nevada caucuses to tuesday's victory in florida. and he tried to move on from the flap over this comment on wednesday. >> i'm not...
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the recipient, dallas wiens of texas, appeared alongside his doctors in boston, where he had the ground-breaking operation. he had suffered near-fatal burns on a construction site. the accident left the 26-year- old wiens permanently blind. the credit card processor global payments worked today to reassure card holders, after a major security breach last week. the atlanta-based firm said the problem is "absolutely contained," but the investigation continues. initially, it appeared hackers stole credit card numbers for one and a half million visa and mastercard users across north america. today global payments said the number affected may be smaller. martha johnson has resigned after accounts of lavish spending. the "washington post" reported today on a training conference that ran up costs of $835,000. the expenses included $3200 for a mind reader and $75,000 on a trainingexerse to build a bicycle. the g.s.a.oversee supplies, office space and transportation for federal agencies. on wall street, stocks opened the second quarter with modest gains after a key index showed gains in manufacturing. th
the recipient, dallas wiens of texas, appeared alongside his doctors in boston, where he had the ground-breaking operation. he had suffered near-fatal burns on a construction site. the accident left the 26-year- old wiens permanently blind. the credit card processor global payments worked today to reassure card holders, after a major security breach last week. the atlanta-based firm said the problem is "absolutely contained," but the investigation continues. initially, it appeared...
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. >> we just saw bill russell on the screen and i have to use my boston sports record when i see somne like that. >> i do fashin, he does -- >> the other thing, talking about a second inaugural, everybody knows the president now. so beverly, how can he differ or how can he be more inspirational? how does he speak to on audience that now knows him? >> unfortunately the track record on this front is not great in the 20th century. obama has been having dinners with historians. i don't think any of us -- having dinner with the long historians over the past few weeks, to look back both at second inaugurals and second term and they have been succeeded on eisenhower because eisenhower is really the only president in the 20th century to have what people would argue is a better second term than his first term. in terms of the speech itself, i think it's right that we're looking at a question of tone. we're looking at kind of how far obama is going to go in terms of the part san question, and it's really a speech that you make for history as much as for all of those happy people on the mall. >>
. >> we just saw bill russell on the screen and i have to use my boston sports record when i see somne like that. >> i do fashin, he does -- >> the other thing, talking about a second inaugural, everybody knows the president now. so beverly, how can he differ or how can he be more inspirational? how does he speak to on audience that now knows him? >> unfortunately the track record on this front is not great in the 20th century. obama has been having dinners with...